Buggy – Linn Kazoo Review

I have used this App for many hours auditioning equipment on three iPads in two different audio retailers, and over the past week or two on my iPhone at home controlling two new Linn DSM products. Overall, it's adequate enough that I purchased the equipment, but I'm eagerly awaiting any future improvements and updates because it isn't that great. I compare this to 6 years using Sonos on iOS devices, and the Sonos software is superior in almost every way (I can't think of an exception offhand). Kazoo: can't search all sources at once (NAS, Tidal, etc). Poor organization of library titles (many folders, sub folders, backing up many arrows to leave the library, more). No Pandora or Rhapsody. Minor quibble: deleting items from the playlist is one-by-one, each two clicks instead of one fast swipe (example of overall barely adequate GUI/usability for a premium product). Major gripe: always stalls on Tidal searches (the only thing I've tried searching). Spinning wheel of waiting is fixed by closing and relaunching the app. This happens over and over when I'm actively searching and listening and reworking my playlist on the fly, music surfing. The first dealer said it must be their network. The second dealer said it must be their older iPad. When the newer iPad did it, they said it must be their network. At home my wired network is stable and working completely normally, and the dealer said it may be the 5G wifi, but it also happens when I switch to the slower non-5G wifi. They have my money, so I hope they get some usability experts to turn this thing around.
Review by dhdmd on Linn Kazoo.